†subfamily Geniohyinae Matsumoto 1926 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Alternative spelling: Geniohyidae

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Hyracoidea of the Fayum, Egypt, with description of several new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56:253-350

Parent taxon: Pliohyracidae according to N. Court and M. Mahboubi 1993

See also Matsumoto 1926, Pickford 2004, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010 and Tsujikawa and Pickford 2006

Sister taxa: Hengduanshanhyrax, Kvabebihyrax, Megalohyrax, Meroehyrax, Pachyhyrax, Parapliohyrax, Pliohyracinae, Pliohyrax, Postschizotherium, Saghatheriinae, Selenohyrax, Sogdohyrax

Subtaxa: Brachyhyrax Geniohyus

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Kenya (2 collections), Uganda (1)

• Oligocene of Egypt (4), Kenya (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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